Nushell

histogram for default

Creates a new table with a histogram based on the column name passed in.

Signature

> histogram (column-name) (frequency-column-name) --percentage-type

Parameters

  • column-name: column name to calc frequency, no need to provide if input is just a list
  • frequency-column-name: histogram's frequency column, default to be frequency column output
  • --percentage-type {string}: percentage calculate method, can be 'normalize' or 'relative', in 'normalize', defaults to be 'normalize'

Examples

Compute a histogram of file types

> ls | histogram type

Compute a histogram for the types of files, with frequency column named freq

> ls | histogram type freq

Compute a histogram for a list of numbers

> [1 2 1] | histogram
╭───┬───────┬───────┬──────────┬────────────┬────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ # │ value │ count │ quantile │ percentage │                             frequency                              │
├───┼───────┼───────┼──────────┼────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 0 │     1 │     2 │   0.6667 │ 66.67%     │ ****************************************************************** │
│ 1 │     2 │     1 │   0.3333 │ 33.33%     │ *********************************                                  │
╰───┴───────┴───────┴──────────┴────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

Compute a histogram for a list of numbers, and percentage is based on the maximum value

> [1 2 3 1 1 1 2 2 1 1] | histogram --percentage-type relative